Okay, so to start, some backstory of why I came up with this: Yesterday I was forced to discuss sexuality with a man who believed it was a black and white, set in stone thing, you are either Gay or Straight (Bisexuality is something he doesn't believe in) which really irked me since I know better.
But that got me to thinking, why couldn't I make it black and white? Sexuality has always been murky, but since I'm bored and have little else to do I figured I met as well kill an hour or two trying to classify most sexualities.
So I started with a line, with Heterosexual on one side, Homosexual on the other, and Bisexual in the middle. I then broke up several points between the two ends with Heavily Preferred, Preferred, and Lightly Preferred on either side, denoting that True Bisexuality is actually pretty rare, and that more often than not Bisexuals have preferences.
Then taking into account Nonsexuality, I made each of these points on a separate scale of their own with three points, the top being the "Regular Interest" Scale, and then the "Minor Interest", and finally "No Interest at all", because similar to Bisexuals, True Nonsexuals are also hard to come by.
However then I realised that the bottom row made no sense: How could they have no interest and still denote what they would have interest in? So I removed that and simply plotted a point unattached to the two lines and labeled it True Nonsexual, leaving a total of nineteen points of sexuality to divide it up.
Then came the question, "If we have separate ranges for Nonsexuals from Average Sexual Interest, should I also create a third one for Heightened Sexual Interest, or would that just serve to divide things between men and women? (Reasoning being that as I see it Men are far more sexual creatures and thus much more likely to skew results in favor of the top half while women would likely stay around the average range, as well as it falling under the possible purview of Nymphomania and I don't know whether I'd classify what may be considered a disorder.)
So now onto the questions
Question One: Do you agree with this/What criticisms do you have for it?
Question Two: Do you think that I should have a HSI level, or should I just stick with ASI and NSI?
Edit: So apparently this already exists and I totally wasted three hours of my time inventing something that already is here with fancy graphs. Go ahead and disregard this thread then, sorry to have wasted your time and confuse a few people over it.
But that got me to thinking, why couldn't I make it black and white? Sexuality has always been murky, but since I'm bored and have little else to do I figured I met as well kill an hour or two trying to classify most sexualities.
So I started with a line, with Heterosexual on one side, Homosexual on the other, and Bisexual in the middle. I then broke up several points between the two ends with Heavily Preferred, Preferred, and Lightly Preferred on either side, denoting that True Bisexuality is actually pretty rare, and that more often than not Bisexuals have preferences.
Then taking into account Nonsexuality, I made each of these points on a separate scale of their own with three points, the top being the "Regular Interest" Scale, and then the "Minor Interest", and finally "No Interest at all", because similar to Bisexuals, True Nonsexuals are also hard to come by.
However then I realised that the bottom row made no sense: How could they have no interest and still denote what they would have interest in? So I removed that and simply plotted a point unattached to the two lines and labeled it True Nonsexual, leaving a total of nineteen points of sexuality to divide it up.
Then came the question, "If we have separate ranges for Nonsexuals from Average Sexual Interest, should I also create a third one for Heightened Sexual Interest, or would that just serve to divide things between men and women? (Reasoning being that as I see it Men are far more sexual creatures and thus much more likely to skew results in favor of the top half while women would likely stay around the average range, as well as it falling under the possible purview of Nymphomania and I don't know whether I'd classify what may be considered a disorder.)
So now onto the questions
Question One: Do you agree with this/What criticisms do you have for it?
Question Two: Do you think that I should have a HSI level, or should I just stick with ASI and NSI?
Edit: So apparently this already exists and I totally wasted three hours of my time inventing something that already is here with fancy graphs. Go ahead and disregard this thread then, sorry to have wasted your time and confuse a few people over it.
